Proof Quote by Michael Atiyah Download Open image “Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.” — Michael Atiyah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Proof Should Should have Theorems
If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem. — Atle Selberg Copy Share Image
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. — John Locke Copy Share Image
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. — Pierre de Fermat Copy Share Image
That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample. — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms. — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs,… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the game. I… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it,… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
